The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-24
HE AS CURED.
A Young Man Who Wanted to be De-
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From. the Cipcinaoti Enquirer
II cured boy this week of his desire to
become detective said Detective Billy
Hazeu, of the Hazen Agency, yesterday.
Billy was seated i'll the lobby at the Gibson
House chatting with several friends IIe
had been asked few questions as to the
duties of a detective and had given some in
tcrcsting points in regard to what was
necessary to make a good one. 1.-The regu-
lar crook, y he said, is a man of intelligence
and of strong will power. 1t takes man
equally acute to get anything near such a
man. He must be a man of resources, able
and ready to take advantage of anything
that may turn up, and, if detected in his
business, prompt III squaring himself with u
crook and in dispelling all suspicious Of
course,
HE MUST BE A GREAT ACTOR
and be possessed of quick insight into hui
man character, agreeable and companion
able" Then lie spoke of the desire to be
come a detective, which seems to fill so many
Young men. This week, )" he continued. "a
well-known gentleman came to me and said
that his son, boy of about 20 years of age,
was bent upon being a detective. | told him
to send the boy to me. Sure enough, last
Tuesday morning he put in an appearance
He was a bright, clever lad saw that at
once I gave him the description of GER
tain bank clerk, told him the bank in which
he wal employed, and said that wanted
the clerks name. He started out. In less
than an hour he was back. highly elated
He had the nameE wanted Understand me,
it was square business. / wanted the clerk
spotted. Well, | told him to watch the
clerk constantly until the clerk went to bed
that night. He went away and the next
morning was on hand bright and early with
his report all written out. He was a little
careworn, noticed. | told him to keep on
with his work
HE SHOWED UP
the next morning with his report but that
was the last saw of him. [ understand
now that he returned to his studies and is
perfectly satisfied with his experience as a
detective"
What do you mean by spotting man?'
asked one of the party.
sit is to follow him from early morning
until he retires at night--to his meals, to his
business; TO notice with whom he talks, what
he does, and then to be able to report it all
in a condensed intelligent way 1t is the
most difficult part of detective work Some
men are fit for nothing else | have had
men who could follow clerk or book
keeper and never permit him to escape for
moment. On any other branch of the
business, though, they would be entirely at
sea- Shadowing is indeed the most difficult
and really scia:tiflc work in our line NY
father early put me to doing that, and it de-
veloped patience and perseverance to follow
up a case, even when everything appeared
against me- If a man is Swallowed for two
weeks alone almost his entire inner life be-
comes known, and want to say to you
that most
ALL MEN HAVE INNER LIVES
that is lead a dual existence. More men in
lie oif baH haa1a chaJ fho,
son has an idea of. Wives have their hus-
bands Swallowed and husbands their wives.
Almost every man in this city, prominent
in business circles or in politics, has been
shadowed and there is filed away with some
person or other report that would make
some men, considered above reproach, fairly
tremble. | know one man in Cincinnati
whom l was shadowing once He is the
junior member in one of the largest dry
goods houses in the town. He stood in Vine
street resort for half an hour one evening
lecturing friend of mine, a young man, ON
morality, and one would have thought him
the pJirest man in the world That very
night Sergt Gill at Central Police Station,
had occasion to look through certain as
signation house for man he wanted. There
he found the man to whom refer. He was
with the wife of one of his travelling sales
men, and almost died when discovered
We have many banks and business houses
here. and / suppose we have at one time or
another
sHADowED ALMOST EVERY EMPLOYE
of all of them. The employers, you see,
want to know what their men are doing. 1t
has only been about two months since my
father, who then had charge of our business,
sent for a certain bank clerk. He is good,
clever, manly fellow-a thorough prince.
My father read to him report of what he
had been doing for a week. The young man
was not bad, but was getting little wild.
He had been playing poker and visiting
houses of illrepute drinking wine and all
that. His eyes bulged out larger than saucers
when my father read him record of his
little breaks He was given some whole
some advice, and it made different man of
him, no doubt preventing him from going
wrong. A good, lively subject will lead a
detective terrible race to keep up with
him and also avoid detection"
1.-The shadow is kept very busy, then, re-
marked reporter.
Indeed he is There are three branches
to our business. There is the shadow, the
investigator and the roper-in. Some great
criminals have been captured by means of
shadow. The robbers of the Northampton
Bank were Swallowed for months before they
were arrested. Then the celebrated crooks,
Scott and Dunlap, were taken in. Billy
Connors was Swallowed for months and Red
Leary for weeks by different detectives.
THE INVESTIGATOR
in a private agency like ours is the man
who goes at once to place where crime
is committed as bank robbery or
burglary. He mixes with the crowd about
the place, talks with those mostly interested,
learns everything he can and listens TO every
remark dropped. Then he forms his own
conclusions, and upon those conclusions,
if the job of working up the crime is given
y. to our agency the work is performed"
"And the roper-in--what is his bust
Wnessp
''He is simply roper-in. That is all;
He must be man of good address and
clever talker, or able to make up as regu-
lar rounder, and must be able to take care
of himself He works upon criminal,
gains his confidence, and secures COMES
sion as to the criminals guilt. In appear
ance he must be the last person to be taken
for detective; but, then, that is equally
true of all detectives. Accordingly as they
become known they lose their usefulness.
There is something about the detective
business, its excitement, that lends q charm
no other business possesses. 1t is ever new,
filed with adventures and excitement.